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Alexander Pope
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Alexander Pope
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Charlie McCarthy
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Christopher Marlowe
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis, tertiisque consistere.
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Edgar Quinet
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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Epictetus
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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F. Hawes
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
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George Herbert
For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice A banner with the strange device, Excelsior!
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